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Placement of neonatal central venous catheter tips in the right atrium: a practice to be avoided?
  1. JONATHAN C DARLING,
  2. SIMON J NEWELL,
  3. PETER R F DEAR
  1. Department of Paediatrics and Child Health
  2. Clinical Sciences Building
  3. St James's University Hospital
  4. Leeds LS9 7TF, UK

https://doi.org/10.1136/fn.85.2.F145b

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    Editor—Following the recent media interest in pericardial tamponade complicating the use of percutaneous central venous catheters in neonatal patients, we wish to alert readers to our experience. Our previous policy was to accept right atrial placement of percutaneous central venous catheter tips. This was in line with published recommendations1-3 and is still considered acceptable practice in some …

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